Moderator

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  Michael Carton

  WQPT's Director of Education and Outreach

Participants

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  Rachael Mullins

  Panelist

  Rachael Mullins serves as the President and CEO of the Putnam Museum and Science Center, taking the helm June 2019. Prior leadership roles in the community include 18 years with Davenport Community Schools, most recently as the Assistant to the Superintendent for Community Relations and Partnerships, where Mullins directed development efforts, legislative affairs, volunteer engagement, marketing and parent communications, as well as fostered new education models including the Creative Arts Academy, Mid City High School and their Urban Farm Program, West High’s INSPIRE Academy exploring career pathways, and the district’s nationally recognized out-of-school time program, Stepping Stones. Past professional roles include diverse experiences in mass transit, downtown development, the arts, and tourism, including foundational roles with the Bucktown Center for the Arts, River Music Experience, and Figge Art Museum. Mullins earned her Master's in Business Administration, with a Marketing Concentration, from Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, and her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, with a Management Concentration and an additional degree specialization in Fine Arts from St. Ambrose University.

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  Christina Kastell

  Panelist

  Christina Kastell is the Curator of History and Anthropology at the Putnam Museum and a Material Culture Specialist who holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, and attended the Graduate Program in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin. She has been with the Putnam Museum for 18 years, developing and curating more than 20 exhibits of high humanities content, including Bloodlines: Our Ties to the Civil War, winner of the Loren Horton award for Community History, Building a Railroad, Building a Dream: The Rock Island Line winning Humanities Iowa program of the year, and Mi Casa Nueva and a 30-minute documentary; Stories form the Barrio, both of which won awards from LULAC Council 10 and the Mexican Consulate of Chicago.

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  Lisa Powell-Williams

  Panelist

  Lisa’s interest in suffrage started early in life—likely while watching Mrs. Banks sing Sister Suffragette in the movie version of Mary Poppins. It continued when she received a t-shirt that said, “A Woman’s Place is in the House…and in the Senate” from a former student of her father’s who went on to serve in the Iowa legislature. It continued during her college years in the culmination of a B.A. in Political Science. Lisa has been a librarian for three decades. She has a Masters of Library and Information Science and is currently the Adult and Young Adult Services Coordinator at the Moline Public Library. Lisa enjoys serving in many volunteer roles in the community, including being a WQPT Community Advisory Board Member and former chair, and on the Liberated Voices/Changed Lives Putnam Exhibit committee. She enjoyed researching and portraying Moliner, Abbie Walker Gould, for the exhibit’s biographical video series. And she concurs with the lyrics Mrs. Banks sang—“Our daughters' daughters will adore us And they'll sing in grateful chorus "Well done, Sister Suffragette!"